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WINE MAKIN" AND PEACH AND APPLE TREE 6 to 8 LARGE PLUS SMALLER STORES SAW MILLS ALONG BAYOU BERNARD FOUNDRY -- NEWSPAPER — REAL ESTATE FOR GOOD LIVING PROMOTED AFTER NEW RAILROAD BUILT
September - 1867
N. 0. Times - Tuesday, October 1, 1867 - p 3 c 1
HANDSBORO
To the Editor of N. 0. Times —
This place, as everybody may not know, is two miles north of Mississippi Sound, and the same distance in the rear of the ship-landing known as Mississippi City.
It is not large, having a population I think, of not more than 200 inhabitants, yet it does a very good business in trade with the Wolf River, and Black and Red Creek denizens.
It has 6 or 8 good sized, and several smaller stores.
It has a large number of mills along Bayou Bernard, among the largest of which are those of Messrs. Calvin Taylor and Niles, Humes & C
It has also an extensive Foundry, that of J. N. Bradford & Co. Arbors and Orchards
In the.interior nearby there is considerable disposition toward the making of wine. Dr. M. C. Vaughan and Capt. William A. Harper have made a lange number of gallons of what is pronounced excellent wine this season. The grapes, very fine, are of the Scuppernong varietj
These gentlemen, we understand, have planted successfully a very large orchard of peach and apple trees. Others are resolted to follow their commendable example, and you will no doubt have much to say hereafter of the wine and fruit of the seashore counties, and particularly of old Harrison.
Newspaper
Persons in all directions are speaking well of the neat, though small, newspaper of Handsboro, the "Democrat," published and edited by Pizarro K. Mayers, Esq. It is well filled with soicey and pointed articles, and is, I am told, doing a very fine business.
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